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The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

av Claudia Rowe

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Biography & Autobiography. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:

In this superb work of literary true crimeâ??a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspenseâ??a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us.

"Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I'll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you're honest, as honest as any reporter. . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn't it?"â??Kendall Francois

In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister.

Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight womenâ??and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims' rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil.

Reaching out after Francois was arrested, Rowe and the serial killer began a dizzying four-year conversation about cruelty, compassion, and control; an unusual and provocative relationship that would eventually lead her to the abyss, forcing her to clearly see herself and her own pastâ??and why she was drawn… (mer)

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Overall, I enjoyed the book. I very much liked the authors voice and writing style. I know that the book is not only about Kendall Francois but also about the author but I was much less interested in her and her history and her journey than I was with the killer and his crimes. Even much of the background info about him, the interviews with his old friends and teachers, were tedious and boring to me.

Not a book I'd read again but I don't regret the experience. I'd definitely read a novel by Rowe if she goes that way. I really do like her writing voice. ( )
  amcheri | Jan 5, 2023 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
This tale of a journalist and a serial killer is chilling and unnerving at times. The author is a young journalist in a smaller town outside of New York City and struggling to find her own identity when the town is surprised by the sudden confession of a serial killer who is responsible for disappearance of eight women. The case is gruesome in its details - the killer kept the women's bodies in the house he shared with his families for years - and the author, either bravely or stupidly, commences a correspondence with the killer, beginning a strange dance in which she struggles to both get the story she wants and to come to terms with her own past. Overall, I found this book to be compelling and, by the end, frighteningly insightful. ( )
  wagner.sarah35 | Jul 8, 2021 |
2.5 stars ( )
  snakes6 | Aug 25, 2020 |
Mediocre, but not unbearable. ( )
  hatingongodot | May 3, 2020 |
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Biography & Autobiography. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:

In this superb work of literary true crimeâ??a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspenseâ??a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us.

"Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I'll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you're honest, as honest as any reporter. . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn't it?"â??Kendall Francois

In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister.

Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight womenâ??and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims' rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil.

Reaching out after Francois was arrested, Rowe and the serial killer began a dizzying four-year conversation about cruelty, compassion, and control; an unusual and provocative relationship that would eventually lead her to the abyss, forcing her to clearly see herself and her own pastâ??and why she was drawn

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